Chapter 198: Transforming Community Experience (Part 7)
Knowing that Zhou Ao is penniless, he needs to use the money from 606 to retrieve his ID card. Unfortunately, 606 doesn't have an account yet and can't use money, so he can only use Zhou Ao's money to open an account, but Zhou Ao is penniless...
——So the final conclusion is that no one has money and no one can get anything done.
Zhou Ao was still struggling: "Can't you be flexible?"
The clerk said indifferently: "We are just following the procedures."
Zhang You fell into deep thought: "Do you think there might be some logical flaws in your process?"
The clerk crunched a cucumber. "I don't think so. Our regulations are very comprehensive, and every year we're ranked first among the top ten most efficient and well-received offices in University Town."
Tang Xin Jue: "What is the way to provide feedback that is not favorable?"
"Oh, there is no way."
Thanks, I understand.
Just as a hippopotamus lay on the ground, losing hope, Tang Xinjue's voice suddenly reached his ears: "What about this?"
It looked up and saw the girl holding out a colorful envelope. The words "Invitation" could be vaguely seen on the cover.
"Excuse me, can it help us with our identity application?"
The clerk paused chewing, his eyes lingered on the envelope for a few seconds, and he reached out to take it.
The envelope was opened, and the woman took out the black and red card, looked at it for a moment, and then threw the cucumber aside.
The hippopotamus was so shocked that he even thought of an escape route. But then the clerk pulled out a pair of glasses from under the table and put them on. "Why didn't you tell me about this earlier, tourists?"
She scribbled a few words on the paper and pushed it forward: "Come on, sign it."
Zhou Ao: ...???
The hippopotamus almost jumped up with excitement, but was also a little confused: "But we were tourists too."
How come he doesn't remember being treated this way?
"You're a budget tour group, and budget tours have a minimum spending requirement." The clerk said, not even blinking. "Those invited here are VIPs. There's no spending requirement. Use the exclusive channel. Do you understand?"
Zhou Ao: "..."
606: “…”
Being scammed by tour groups in real life is fine, but even in a dungeon, I can't escape it? ?
The four players in 606 finally realized that the game was not a complete pitfall after all, and that the real meaning of the reward copy was here.
Tang Xin Jue's eyes shifted slightly, and he suddenly asked, "Excuse me, are these rules of yours original, or were they copied from somewhere else?"
This time, the clerk rarely answered immediately.
She looked up and stared at Tang Xinjue quietly for a few seconds, then the corners of her mouth curled up, revealing a huge smile:
"Of course, I learned it from your world."
An inexplicable chill suddenly ran up the backs of several people's necks. Only Tang Xinjue continued to ask as if he hadn't noticed:
"The regulations of the offices and other institutions..."
The clerk said calmly, "We learned this from you, but we've made a lot of improvements on our own. According to your regulations, reporting a problem means we have to solve it, which is too troublesome. We don't handle any difficult issues here and will forward them to the district mayor's hotline."
"...Who is the district chief?"
“Oh, there is no district chief.”
“…”
Zheng Wanqing subconsciously asked, "Who should I contact if the district mayor's hotline can't solve the problem?"
"Please transfer to the educator hotline."
Zhou Ao felt dizzy after hearing this: "Is it useful?"
The clerk picked up the cucumber again and rolled his eyes at him. "You must be joking. Educators don't even know they have this hotline."
…
The cool air slowly dissipated, leaving only silence in the quiet air.
Tang Xinjue signed his last name and said sincerely, "You are indeed very good at bringing forth new ideas."
The clerk nodded proudly and replied confidently, "Of course. This is a university town, a place of top-notch learning. Let me see... the file is ready."
As soon as he finished speaking, four palm-sized red notebooks appeared on the table, with the names of the four people in 606 printed on the cover.
The four of them picked it up one by one and opened it. They saw a black number on the first page of each account. This was their "initial capital".
"I'm 65, how about you?" Zheng Wanqing leaned over to look, but Guo Guo had a worried look on his face. "I'm not even 50. How could that be? Where did all my weight go?"
"According to game time, we have been in the game for more than a week. If we count the time spent in the dungeon, it would be at least more than a month." Zhang You listed the reasons rigorously.
In this kind of environment where you have to wait for dawn with your head on your shoulders, it would be inhumane not to be thin.
Guo Guo sighed deeply: "If I had known earlier, I should have eaten a few more pounds in the last dungeon."
Zheng Wanqing looked down at her and said, "It's useless. You should buy bone growth liquid in advance and grow another 20 centimeters taller."
Guo Guo: “…”
On the other side, Tang Xinjue had already paid 1 kilogram of fee and retrieved Zhou Ao's identity card.
A white light flashed on the hippopotamus doll, and a very thin, tall boy slowly stood up, stroking his face in a daze. "Thank you so much... I almost forgot what I looked like. I didn't expect to still be able to... wuwu..."
"Want to see what you look like?"
The clerk looked up sharply and said, "This is the community's official co-branded portable mirror. Original price: 5 jin each. Want to buy it?"
Zhou Ao: "...No, thank you."
"Then hurry up and leave. Don't take up space and delay the flow of people." After the five people had dealt with their identity issues and the clerk had finished eating the last cucumber, he began to ruthlessly drive them away.
Tang Xin Jue did not move, but instead raised another question:
"I'd like to ask, can VIP tourists also apply for an ID card like theirs?"
She pointed at the green card in Zhou Ao's hand. Besides the tourist's information, it clearly showed the words "Consumption Amount Completion" in large letters, followed by the number 235.5.
The clerk was stunned, completely bewildered. "What do you want this for? You don't have any mission requirements. You just need to find the exit at the end of the tour time."
She only knew that the poor residents of Block 2 liked to pretend to be the rich people of Block 1, but she had never heard of any rich person who had a mental problem and had to wear a poor identity card to play games.
Tang Xin Jue didn't explain, but only asked, "Can I do it?"
"Of course you can," the clerk shrugged. "You're VIP tourists, so you can do whatever you want. This ID card has no practical effect on you; it's just a charm. But I must warn you: if the local residents see this green card, their attitude will be very different."
"Thank you." The girl smiled. "That's exactly what I want."
After leaving the office, everyone had an extra set of red account books, plus a green identity card and lanyard.
Although they will not be forced to make purchases, in order to make their identity information more comprehensive, a "task amount" has been added to the cards of the four members of 606, but the data loaded is random.
Guo Guo carefully hung them around his neck and asked impatiently, "According to what the clerk said, are we safe from now on?"
She felt it was a little unreal that she was suddenly treated so well.
Tang Xinjue shook his head: "Not necessarily. Don't forget, our invitation is time-limited."
But unfortunately, there was neither a deadline written on it nor any indication of where to leave when the deadline arrived. Even the office could not find this information, so they had to find everything on their own.
"If the time limit expires and the VIP privileges disappear , but we are still stuck in this copy and don't get out, guess what will happen?" Tang Xinjue looked at Guo Guo.
Guo Guo: “…” He couldn’t laugh.
Zhang You calmly took over the conversation: "The best case scenario is that we will be downgraded to ordinary tourists and then receive missions like Zhou Ao."
At that time, the random number on this green card will become the actual mandatory consumption amount.
"But in a worse case scenario, even our identities as tourists might be erased..." Zhang You didn't continue speaking, but everyone thought of the same thing.
Is the doll form they take when they first enter the copy the state in which they exist when they have no identity?
Zhou Ao, having learned from previous experience, gave a positive answer.
He counted the ID cards in his hand and recalled, "I remember that to avoid debt collection, we looked for many places to seal our identities, and in the end, only the street office would accept them. As a result, we lost consciousness as soon as we left the neighborhood... It was because of our identities!"
So as soon as they returned to the community, Tang Xinjue and the other three who were carrying the invitation letters immediately turned back into humans, only he remained in the form of a hippopotamus.
He sighed. "But now that I have my ID card back and see the debt on it, I suddenly feel like being a hippo isn't so bad... No, this amount?"
Zhou Ao stared at the last card with his eyes wide open, his mouth opened in disbelief.
Unlike the other four people, he not only "redeemed" his own ID card, but also borrowed an extra 5 kilograms from 606 before leaving, and took out all his companions' cards at a group package price.
So he should have 11 cards in his hand now, but why is there only 8 no matter how he counts?
"If the office didn't deduct three points from you, it means someone else came here before you came back."
Tang Xinjue raised his eyebrows: "Some of your companions have already regained their human form."
Zhou Ao quickly began to rack his brains to recall and find out who the three ID cards belonged to.
"If I remember correctly, it should be Lao Zhang, Li Ke and... Xiao Wan?"
He rubbed his brows, confirming that his memory was correct. "But I clearly remember seeing Xiaowan explode in front of me... How could she still be alive?"
